2001 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix
# 2001 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2001 Pacific motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2001 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 5–7 October 2001 at the Twin Ring Motegi.

## 500 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Nastro Azzurro Honda | Honda | 25 | 46:32.600 | 4 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Alex Barros | West Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +2.607 | 3 | 20 |
| 3 | 65 | Loris Capirossi | West Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +9.765 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 6 | Norifumi Abe | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 25 | +13.951 | 16 | 13 |
| 5 | 11 | Tohru Ukawa | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +21.994 | 9 | 11 |
| 6 | 56 | Shinya Nakano | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 25 | +22.279 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 7 | Carlos Checa | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 25 | +27.332 | 11 | 9 |
| 8 | 1 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | +27.607 | 6 | 8 |
| 9 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | +33.822 | 7 | 7 |
| 10 | 64 | Yukio Kagayama | Telefónica Movistar Suzuki | Suzuki | 25 | +38.139 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 28 | Àlex Crivillé | Repsol YPF Honda Team | Honda | 25 | +41.866 | 12 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | Garry McCoy | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 25 | +50.419 | 13 | 4 |
| 13 | 10 | José Luis Cardoso | Antena 3 Yamaha d'Antin | Yamaha | 25 | +56.204 | 17 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | Anthony West | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 25 | +1:05.286 | 18 | 2 |
| 15 | 9 | Leon Haslam | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 20 | 1 |
| 16 | 21 | Barry Veneman | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 22 | |
| 17 | 18 | Brendan Clarke | Shell Advance Honda | Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| Ret | 19 | Olivier Jacque | Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 18 | Retirement | 8 | |
| Ret | 17 | Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Proton Team KR | Proton KR | 8 | Retirement | 10 | |
| Ret | 12 | Haruchika Aoki | Arie Molenaar Racing | Honda | 7 | Accident | 19 | |
| Ret | 41 | Noriyuki Haga | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 6 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 3 | Max Biaggi | Marlboro Yamaha Team | Yamaha | 5 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 16 | Johan Stigefelt | Sabre Sport | Sabre V4 | 4 | Retirement | 21 | |
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## 250 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 31 | Tetsuya Harada | Aprilia | 23 | 43:59.587 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Honda | 23 | +7.559 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | 99 | Jeremy McWilliams | Aprilia | 23 | +8.024 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 10 | Fonsi Nieto | Aprilia | 23 | +11.462 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 44 | Roberto Rolfo | Aprilia | 23 | +11.733 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Aprilia | 23 | +13.498 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | Naoki Matsudo | Yamaha | 23 | +19.937 | 10 | 9 |
| 8 | 21 | Franco Battaini | Aprilia | 23 | +24.789 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 46 | Taro Sekiguchi | Yamaha | 23 | +26.671 | 16 | 7 |
| 10 | 88 | Nobuyuki Ohsaki | Yamaha | 23 | +33.671 | 17 | 6 |
| 11 | 81 | Randy de Puniet | Aprilia | 23 | +37.114 | 7 | 5 |
| 12 | 42 | David Checa | Honda | 23 | +40.478 | 15 | 4 |
| 13 | 89 | Osamu Miyazaki | Yamaha | 23 | +41.670 | 20 | 3 |
| 14 | 16 | David Tomás | Honda | 23 | +42.139 | 23 | 2 |
| 15 | 57 | Lorenzo Lanzi | Aprilia | 23 | +42.568 | 22 | 1 |
| 16 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Aprilia | 23 | +42.806 | 24 | |
| 17 | 66 | Alex Hofmann | Aprilia | 23 | +43.379 | 21 | |
| 18 | 6 | Alex Debón | Aprilia | 23 | +45.790 | 11 | |
| 19 | 18 | Shahrol Yuzy | Yamaha | 23 | +46.181 | 12 | |
| 20 | 90 | Daisaku Sakai | Honda | 23 | +48.361 | 26 | |
| 21 | 92 | Hiroshi Aoyama | Honda | 23 | +48.507 | 19 | |
| 22 | 24 | Jason Vincent | Yamaha | 23 | +1:16.106 | 29 | |
| 23 | 11 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 23 | +1:33.167 | 30 | |
| 24 | 36 | Luis Costa | Yamaha | 23 | +1:53.607 | 31 | |
| 25 | 55 | Diego Giugovaz | Aprilia | 22 | +1 lap | 33 | |
| 26 | 14 | Katja Poensgen | Honda | 22 | +1 lap | 35 | |
| Ret | 37 | Luca Boscoscuro | Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 18 | |
| Ret | 23 | César Barros | Yamaha | 11 | Retirement | 32 | |
| Ret | 5 | Marco Melandri | Aprilia | 5 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 74 | Daijiro Kato | Honda | 5 | Accident | 2 | |
| Ret | 45 | Stuart Edwards | Yamaha | 4 | Accident | 34 | |
| Ret | 22 | José David de Gea | Yamaha | 3 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Ret | 9 | Sebastián Porto | Yamaha | 3 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 20 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 28 | |
| Ret | 91 | Takayuki Onodera | Yamaha | 0 | Retirement | 27 | |
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## 125 cc classification

| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Derbi | 21 | 42:01.711 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 54 | Manuel Poggiali | Gilera | 21 | +1.004 | 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 26 | Daniel Pedrosa | Honda | 21 | +1.129 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 | Lucio Cecchinello | Aprilia | 21 | +12.109 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | 4 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 21 | +23.147 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 28 | Gábor Talmácsi | Honda | 21 | +28.345 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 21 | +28.387 | 6 | 9 |
| 8 | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 21 | +29.678 | 17 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Italjet | 21 | +29.898 | 13 | 7 |
| 10 | 19 | Alessandro Brannetti | Aprilia | 21 | +30.026 | 20 | 6 |
| 11 | 12 | Raúl Jara | Aprilia | 21 | +30.268 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 25 | Joan Olivé | Honda | 21 | +35.692 | 31 | 4 |
| 13 | 29 | Ángel Nieto Jr. | Honda | 21 | +35.894 | 21 | 3 |
| 14 | 39 | Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 21 | +36.170 | 29 | 2 |
| 15 | 31 | Ángel Rodríguez | Aprilia | 21 | +45.438 | 28 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Pablo Nieto | Derbi | 21 | +45.543 | 27 | |
| 17 | 20 | Gaspare Caffiero | Aprilia | 21 | +45.997 | 16 | |
| 18 | 65 | Toshihisa Kuzuhara | Honda | 21 | +1:10.144 | 33 | |
| 19 | 10 | Jarno Müller | Honda | 21 | +1:14.335 | 34 | |
| 20 | 37 | William de Angelis | Honda | 21 | +1:14.887 | 30 | |
| 21 | 77 | Adrián Araujo | Honda | 21 | +1:29.415 | 35 | |
| Ret | 16 | Simone Sanna | Aprilia | 13 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 34 | Eric Bataille | Honda | 11 | Retirement | 32 | |
| Ret | 56 | Yuzo Fujioka | Honda | 6 | Accident | 18 | |
| Ret | 64 | Yuki Takahashi | E-NER | 5 | Accident | 11 | |
| Ret | 15 | Alex de Angelis | Honda | 5 | Accident | 12 | |
| Ret | 24 | Toni Elías | Honda | 4 | Accident | 4 | |
| Ret | 5 | Noboru Ueda | TSR-Honda | 4 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 11 | Max Sabbatani | Aprilia | 4 | Accident | 10 | |
| Ret | 55 | Hideyuki Nakajoh | Honda | 2 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Honda | 1 | Accident | 22 | |
| Ret | 17 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 0 | Accident | 14 | |
| Ret | 18 | Jakub Smrž | Honda | 0 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 66 | Shuhei Aoyama | Honda | 0 | Accident | 26 | |
| Ret | 7 | Stefano Perugini | Italjet | 0 | Accident | 25 | |
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## Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.

| Pos. | Rider | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Valentino Rossi | 250 |
| 2 | Max Biaggi | 183 |
| 3 | Loris Capirossi | 163 |
| 4 | Alex Barros | 147 |
| 5 | Shinya Nakano | 126 |
| Pos. | Constructor | Points |
| 1 | Honda | 292 |
| 2 | Yamaha | 239 |
| 3 | Suzuki | 134 |
| 4 | Proton KR | 59 |
| 5 | Sabre V4 | 6 |

* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
